i love the "love him or hate him theme". The people I've read that "hate him" are people that nobody will ever remember when they're gone. They're people who made 0 difference in the world and who the only reason we read what they wrote is because we're looking for real solace in a time of sadness. But they act like we give a shit that they feel some reason to profess anger at greatness. I don't believe you can say love him or hate him, because frankly if you hate him, you probably don't matter and I really don't give a fuck WHAT you think.
Are you really that ignorant of a what a free market is? Free market doesn't imply that there are no laws against the initiation of force. The correlation between freedom of markets and rule of law is quite the opposite I would argue (Libya, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Britain, New Zealand, USA). Your connection between the notion of property rights and the requirements for mass government regulations strikes me as somewhat disingenuous.
Crashed the economy? Have you looked at the latest economic indicators? We are currently looking at statistically the best economic times in the past half century in the US. Your dire predictions for 2007 are unsubstantiated and represent your own opinion, and are surely not reasonable for the purposes of proving an argument. Suffice it to say that in most quarters they are less than axiomatic. Some might even call them polemic or dogmatic.
Where did the parent poster say anything that is unique to Bush or would make you call him a "Bushite"? It seems more like an argument that an Alan Greenspan would make if you were going to classify it as any one individual. And what interest rate manipulation do you mean? The short term fiat rate has been raised (which certainly would not bode well for 2006 elections), and yet long term market rates have only moved up ever so slightly and still remain at historical lows. So I think that your argument about manipulating rates is either ignorant of the real world or intentionally a package of FUD. In either case, your post is clearly little more than the opinions of an uninformed and undeducated but loud-mouthed AC. Please do a little more homework and a little less toking on the bong when you decide to step into the economic arena.
While I agree that someone without certifications can certainly be much more qualified than someone with them, I think that your prejudice against someone who has certs is just as strange as someone who has a prejudice for them.
Certifications don't really tell you anything other than the person was willing to perform rote memorization (in most cases that I've seen) for a particular vendor. That in itself doesn't seem to be inherently bad. Even a person who is highly skilled in his craft may decide to take advantage of an employer that is willing to pay for a cert. There are times when a vendor wants a partner to have a certain cert level within the company. So to me, if I volunteered to get a cert, I would at least mention it on my resume thinking it couldn't hurt.
Hacking is a state of mind, but not in the typical sense of the word hacker. This book defines hacker as one who delights in solving problems in interesting ways, and I think *that* is a state of mind more than breaking into someone else's machine.
Typical search engines have licensing fees associated with them if you're embedding them in your application. This is basically an open source alternative. And you can customize the hell out of it. I've used it on several web-based applications and on SOA platforms, and it is fast, reliable, and easy to use. Did I mention it's open source? Take a look at the Apache site.
Some examples of customizable features are that you can index database entries and achieve quantum leaps in performance over that offered by Oracle, MySQL, PostGres, Firebird, etc. indexing. You can index formats that are not supported by the major search enginges.
It may not offer quite the performance of Google, Alta Vista, etc., but it's a FREE product, well supported by the folks at Apache, and many open source J2EE frameworks support it as well.
"But Microsoft is unlikely to suffer a similar fate because it took precautions, such as delaying its launch date and sending out a few hundred thousand copies to testers across the country."
These are called precautions? I'm going to tell my client that next time we're delayed on a release. And as far as testing, was that something that was new in software at the time?
I stand corrected, my apologies. What I have read in the past is that based on the median HOME PRICE in SF, a homeowner would have to earn ~160 per year. I realize this was a mistake on my part, and for those of you who seem infinitely offended, I offer my heartiest apologies. I didn't realize I would ruin your day.
No, you're correct, I don't. But I've read in several places that there is an extremely high median income there. I've also spoken to friends who have bought houses there, and it's certainly not cheap, nor is the rent apparently. It seems silly to me that the mayor would think giving away $5 to $10 wireless would really help anybody.
This must be a joke. Last I read, the median income for an SF resident was $160,000. I guess this means SF is looking out for those who are unfortunate enough to only earn $125,000 per year?
Oooh, that was always the worst type of professor to me, the one that lectures straight out of the book. I always felt like I was being ripped off when I got one of those types. It's like going to a five star restaurant and the chef orders Outback for you...
This is not a personal attack (please don't construe it as one), but perhaps you could have taken notes more effectively? I never wrote down every last word; I tended to write down things that were new concepts to me or that I thought could be useful to research later.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "digest that information in my own time". I looked at what the professor said as the real value in return for the money that I was spending, because anybody could take a list of reading material and digest it on their own time. If that's the best way to learn, I think that college would be a waste of time. I would take down those things that the prof. said that gave insight I could not gleam from a book, and used that input to broaden my understanding of the subject.
"As anyone who went to college knows, the best way to learn something is by doing case studies."
Is this really something that anyone who went to college knows? I know the professors seem to think so.
I found the best part of my college experience to be the "old-fashioned" part, where the professor lectured us and we took notes and were encouraged to study further on our own. That gave me a conceptual foundation. The case studies we were given (and there were plenty of them) were generally useless generalizations that did not factor in the millions of variables that real life presents us. I hope that the "video game" approach gives a better approximation of reality, because I do think in theory case studies are a good idea (when used as a followup to a conceptual overview). I just found the case studies that I encountered to be too much fluff and not enough stuff.
I live in a relatively small city (Charlotte, NC). I can choose between a wide array of dial up providers, cable, DSL (I believe two providers, but I may be wrong), and two satellite providers. I get consistent 4-6M performance with cable modem, and pay about $45 per month.
It may not be as fast as what you're getting, but I'd hardly say I'm living in third world conditions. Once WiMax gains the inevitable ubiquity that it will, I will have even better choices still. Many people in bigger cities than Charlotte are buying new homes with fiber to the house, BPL, or municipal wireless as additional options. Decent broadband has been slow in coming to be sure, but I don't think it's a source of national embarrassment as many people are intimating on/.
Okay look Mao, the reason it's predominantly a western ideal is because the west can afford to act like this. My guess is that if there were the type of extreme wealth in ANY part of the world, you would see from time to time similar behavior.
Actually, iirc, Walmart didn't cut prices nearly as heavily the day after Thanksgiving this past year. And not surprisingly, they didn't get the same crazy crowds that they usually do. I believe retailers thought they could hold the line on prices this season, but had to end up giving heavy discounts later in the season after disappointing results.
While I agree it doesn't hurt FF adoption, I have to disagree that this means it will soon be a worthy competitor. It already is. Yes, maybe not every grandmother/non-techie out there will rush out and use it, but there is extensive coverage of Firefox in the mainstream media (Newsweek, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Washington Post, NY Times, etc.)
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by client. The client in the case I'm discussing is a JDBC driver, which is available for free. Are you referring to a GUI client?
MySql getting XA is huge. In the retail world, a lot of companies are switching to J2EE-based POS applications. This requires a database in each store. The problem is that the J2EE servers need an XA-enabled database so that the JMS reads/writes can occur within the same transaction as the data being generated. This has historically ruled MySQL out, which would otherwise be the natural choice. I'm glad to hear XA will be supported in the next release as this opens up MySQL to a whole new audience.
TFA makes it sound like the book focuses primarily on kernel tuning. Can someone who knows more about the subject than I comment on the usefulness of distro specific tuning? I'm just curious if the tuning capabilities of the different products vary greatly. (I'd imagine they would but I'm not sure to what extent....)
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i love the "love him or hate him theme". The people I've read that "hate him" are people that nobody will ever remember when they're gone. They're people who made 0 difference in the world and who the only reason we read what they wrote is because we're looking for real solace in a time of sadness. But they act like we give a shit that they feel some reason to profess anger at greatness. I don't believe you can say love him or hate him, because frankly if you hate him, you probably don't matter and I really don't give a fuck WHAT you think.
This is a complete surprise to me.....
Are you really that ignorant of a what a free market is? Free market doesn't imply that there are no laws against the initiation of force. The correlation between freedom of markets and rule of law is quite the opposite I would argue (Libya, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Britain, New Zealand, USA). Your connection between the notion of property rights and the requirements for mass government regulations strikes me as somewhat disingenuous.
Crashed the economy? Have you looked at the latest economic indicators? We are currently looking at statistically the best economic times in the past half century in the US. Your dire predictions for 2007 are unsubstantiated and represent your own opinion, and are surely not reasonable for the purposes of proving an argument. Suffice it to say that in most quarters they are less than axiomatic. Some might even call them polemic or dogmatic.
Where did the parent poster say anything that is unique to Bush or would make you call him a "Bushite"? It seems more like an argument that an Alan Greenspan would make if you were going to classify it as any one individual. And what interest rate manipulation do you mean? The short term fiat rate has been raised (which certainly would not bode well for 2006 elections), and yet long term market rates have only moved up ever so slightly and still remain at historical lows. So I think that your argument about manipulating rates is either ignorant of the real world or intentionally a package of FUD. In either case, your post is clearly little more than the opinions of an uninformed and undeducated but loud-mouthed AC. Please do a little more homework and a little less toking on the bong when you decide to step into the economic arena.
While I agree that someone without certifications can certainly be much more qualified than someone with them, I think that your prejudice against someone who has certs is just as strange as someone who has a prejudice for them.
Certifications don't really tell you anything other than the person was willing to perform rote memorization (in most cases that I've seen) for a particular vendor. That in itself doesn't seem to be inherently bad. Even a person who is highly skilled in his craft may decide to take advantage of an employer that is willing to pay for a cert. There are times when a vendor wants a partner to have a certain cert level within the company. So to me, if I volunteered to get a cert, I would at least mention it on my resume thinking it couldn't hurt.
Hacking is a state of mind, but not in the typical sense of the word hacker. This book defines hacker as one who delights in solving problems in interesting ways, and I think *that* is a state of mind more than breaking into someone else's machine.
I guess the question then will be who builds the Lexus of software and who builds the Yugo. I feel bad for the Ford and GM software firms....
Typical search engines have licensing fees associated with them if you're embedding them in your application. This is basically an open source alternative. And you can customize the hell out of it. I've used it on several web-based applications and on SOA platforms, and it is fast, reliable, and easy to use. Did I mention it's open source? Take a look at the Apache site.
Some examples of customizable features are that you can index database entries and achieve quantum leaps in performance over that offered by Oracle, MySQL, PostGres, Firebird, etc. indexing. You can index formats that are not supported by the major search enginges.
It may not offer quite the performance of Google, Alta Vista, etc., but it's a FREE product, well supported by the folks at Apache, and many open source J2EE frameworks support it as well.
"But Microsoft is unlikely to suffer a similar fate because it took precautions, such as delaying its launch date and sending out a few hundred thousand copies to testers across the country."
These are called precautions? I'm going to tell my client that next time we're delayed on a release. And as far as testing, was that something that was new in software at the time?
That cannot be true. Since when has being a dupe ever caused an article to get rejected?
You're asking /. readers for advice on marketing? you must be new here......
I stand corrected, my apologies. What I have read in the past is that based on the median HOME PRICE in SF, a homeowner would have to earn ~160 per year. I realize this was a mistake on my part, and for those of you who seem infinitely offended, I offer my heartiest apologies. I didn't realize I would ruin your day.
You're right, what I have read before is that the median home price is such in SF that a person should earn an income of ~160k to afford it. My mistake. http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/05/06/busi ness/20050506_bu03_real.txt
No, you're correct, I don't. But I've read in several places that there is an extremely high median income there. I've also spoken to friends who have bought houses there, and it's certainly not cheap, nor is the rent apparently. It seems silly to me that the mayor would think giving away $5 to $10 wireless would really help anybody.
This must be a joke. Last I read, the median income for an SF resident was $160,000. I guess this means SF is looking out for those who are unfortunate enough to only earn $125,000 per year?
Oooh, that was always the worst type of professor to me, the one that lectures straight out of the book. I always felt like I was being ripped off when I got one of those types. It's like going to a five star restaurant and the chef orders Outback for you...
This is not a personal attack (please don't construe it as one), but perhaps you could have taken notes more effectively? I never wrote down every last word; I tended to write down things that were new concepts to me or that I thought could be useful to research later.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "digest that information in my own time". I looked at what the professor said as the real value in return for the money that I was spending, because anybody could take a list of reading material and digest it on their own time. If that's the best way to learn, I think that college would be a waste of time. I would take down those things that the prof. said that gave insight I could not gleam from a book, and used that input to broaden my understanding of the subject.
"As anyone who went to college knows, the best way to learn something is by doing case studies."
Is this really something that anyone who went to college knows? I know the professors seem to think so.
I found the best part of my college experience to be the "old-fashioned" part, where the professor lectured us and we took notes and were encouraged to study further on our own. That gave me a conceptual foundation. The case studies we were given (and there were plenty of them) were generally useless generalizations that did not factor in the millions of variables that real life presents us. I hope that the "video game" approach gives a better approximation of reality, because I do think in theory case studies are a good idea (when used as a followup to a conceptual overview). I just found the case studies that I encountered to be too much fluff and not enough stuff.
I live in a relatively small city (Charlotte, NC). I can choose between a wide array of dial up providers, cable, DSL (I believe two providers, but I may be wrong), and two satellite providers. I get consistent 4-6M performance with cable modem, and pay about $45 per month.
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It may not be as fast as what you're getting, but I'd hardly say I'm living in third world conditions. Once WiMax gains the inevitable ubiquity that it will, I will have even better choices still. Many people in bigger cities than Charlotte are buying new homes with fiber to the house, BPL, or municipal wireless as additional options. Decent broadband has been slow in coming to be sure, but I don't think it's a source of national embarrassment as many people are intimating on
Okay look Mao, the reason it's predominantly a western ideal is because the west can afford to act like this. My guess is that if there were the type of extreme wealth in ANY part of the world, you would see from time to time similar behavior.
Plus think of all the useful software they'll be able to actually run now. That's going to definitely add to the cost too.....
Actually, iirc, Walmart didn't cut prices nearly as heavily the day after Thanksgiving this past year. And not surprisingly, they didn't get the same crazy crowds that they usually do. I believe retailers thought they could hold the line on prices this season, but had to end up giving heavy discounts later in the season after disappointing results.
While I agree it doesn't hurt FF adoption, I have to disagree that this means it will soon be a worthy competitor. It already is. Yes, maybe not every grandmother/non-techie out there will rush out and use it, but there is extensive coverage of Firefox in the mainstream media (Newsweek, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Washington Post, NY Times, etc.)
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by client. The client in the case I'm discussing is a JDBC driver, which is available for free. Are you referring to a GUI client?
MySql getting XA is huge. In the retail world, a lot of companies are switching to J2EE-based POS applications. This requires a database in each store. The problem is that the J2EE servers need an XA-enabled database so that the JMS reads/writes can occur within the same transaction as the data being generated. This has historically ruled MySQL out, which would otherwise be the natural choice. I'm glad to hear XA will be supported in the next release as this opens up MySQL to a whole new audience.
TFA makes it sound like the book focuses primarily on kernel tuning. Can someone who knows more about the subject than I comment on the usefulness of distro specific tuning? I'm just curious if the tuning capabilities of the different products vary greatly. (I'd imagine they would but I'm not sure to what extent....)